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List several papers presented at the First International Conference on the Critical and Qualitative Approaches to Health Psychology in NewFoundland on July 1999. 'Acquiring Personal Knowledge for Theory and Therapy,' by Nick Milton; Theorizing Personal Change in Health,' by Carla Willig and Angela Harden; 'Health Psychology as Agent of Change,' by David Marks.

The Ottawa Conference on the Assessment of Competence in Medicine and the Healthcare Professions was first convened in 1985 in Ottawa. Since then, what has become known as the Ottawa conference has been held in various locations around the world every 2 years. It has become an important conference for the community of assessment – including researchers, educators, administrators and leaders – to share contemporary knowledge and develop international standards for assessment in medical and health professions education. The Ottawa 2022 conference was held in Lyon, France, in conjunction with the AMEE 2022 conference. A diverse group of international assessment experts were invited to present a symposium at the AMEE conference to summarise key concepts from the Ottawa conference. This paper was developed from that symposium. This paper summarises key themes and issues that emerged from the Ottawa 2022 conference. It highlights the importance of the consensus statements and discusses challenges for assessment such as issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion, shifts in emphasis to systems of assessment, implications of 'big data' and analytics, and challenges to ensure published research and practice are based on contemporary theories and concepts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses abstracts of research papers to be presented at the fifteenth annual meeting of the American Society of Primatologists at Glendon College of York University in Toronto, Ontario on June 19-21, 1992. Ultrasonic imaging of ovarian dynamics during the menstrual cycle in rhesus monkeys; Endocrine and behavioral constraints on reproduction in subordinate male common marmosets; Successful implementation of the video-task paradigm with a squirrel monkey.

The article reports that the North American Society for Sport History will hold its 18th Annual Convention at Banff, Alberta, from May 26-29, 1990. Those interested in presenting a paper or organizing a session should contact or submit abstracts by December 1, 1989.

Presents abstracts of the papers presented in the Parapsychological Association 46th Annual Convention Vancouver, Canada. Prognitive habituation replicable evidence for a process of anomalous cognition; Exploration study of the effects of Ganzfeld conditions on ESP; Measuring children's intuition in a school setting.

This article presents abstracts of papers to be presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research to be held October 16-20, 1996 in Vancouver, British Columbia. A paper presented recently at a meeting of the American Lung Association reported that women who quit smoking and remained "smoke free" regained significant breathing capacity, supporting the clinical observations that some tobacco-related damage to lung tissue is reversible. There is growing body of literature identifying racism as a stressor eliciting acute changes in cardiovascular functioning in the laboratory.

Presents abstracts of papers presented at the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research held on October 16-19, 1986 at Le Center Sheraton in Montreal, Quebec. Account of papers submitted for the symposium on conceptual and methodological implications of sex in psychophysiology research; Highlights of the paper "Power spectral analysis quantification of respiratory sinus arrhythmia," by researcher J.E. Richard presented in this meeting; Overview of the paper "Emotion and autonomic specificity: Something Borrowed -- Something New," by researcher R.W. Levenson submitted under the "Historical Symposium on Emotion" category of this meeting.

Presents the abstracts of scientific paper presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The article presents information related to several abstracts of papers presented at the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research which was held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia on October 1980. Members of the Program Committee were Walton T. Roth who was the chairman, Michael G. H. Coles, Michael E. Dawson, Connie C. Duncan-Johnson, Judith M. Ford, and Theodore P. Zahn. As in recent years, the majority of the research reports were given and discussed informally.

This article provides certain abstracts of papers presented at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, which was held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Toronto, Ontario, in October 1975. Members of the Program Committee were J. Richards Jennings, James Avcrill, Anne Schell, Neil Schnciderman and Gary E. Schwartz. Symposia and mini-courses comprised most of the day-rime program. Research report accepted for presentation were given and discussed informally at two Science Fairs, one during October 17, 1975 and the other on October 19, 1975.

In 2011 the Consensus Statement on Performance Assessment was published in Medical Teacher. That paper was commissioned by AMEE (Association for Medical Education in Europe) as part of the series of Consensus Statements following the 2010 Ottawa Conference. In 2019, it was recommended that a working group be reconvened to review and consider developments in performance assessment since the 2011 publication. Following review of the original recommendations in the 2011 paper and shifts in the field across the past 10 years, the group identified areas of consensus and yet to be resolved issues for performance assessment. This paper addresses developments in performance assessment since 2011, reiterates relevant aspects of the 2011 paper, and summarises contemporary best practice recommendations for OSCEs and WBAs, fit-for-purpose methods for performance assessment in the health professions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information about several research papers related to various aspects of food and nutrition. It includes food security of Syrian refugee households in Canada, maternal mental health and infant feeding style, childcare director perceptions on healthy food consumption, the effect of food advertisements on food intake, and associations between intuitive eating levels and desire to eat during pregnancy.

Presents a call for papers for the 27th NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and Its Application on October 25-29, 2004 in Canada.

Focuses on the 7th Symposium of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association in Montreal, Quebec. Exchange of ideas and research for clinical linguists and phoneticians; Function of phonetics and linguistics methods; Selection of summary papers from the forum.

After the success of the first International Conference on Ionic Liquids in Separation and Purification Technology (ILSEPT), which was held in Sitges, Spain, in 2011, the next edition of this event will take place in Toronto, Canada, on 29 June to 2 July 2014. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents abstracts of papers presented to the Association for Computing Machinery Conference at Rutgers University on March 28-29, 1950, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. 'Maddida'--General Theory,' by Floyd G. Steele; 'Maddida--Design Features,' by Donald E. Eckdahl.

Highlights • Preclinical mesothelioma models are used to inform clinical therapeutic strategies. • Contrast administration time delay impacts enhancement of mesothelioma tumor on CT. • Segmented mesothelioma tumor volume from MRI is associated with patient survival. • Deep learning shows promise for mesothelioma tumor segmentation in CT. • CT-based radiomics is related to the prognosis of mesothelioma patient survival. Abstract Mesothelioma patients rely on the information their clinical team obtains from medical imaging. Whether x-ray-based computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) based on local magnetic fields within a patient's tissues, different modalities generate images with uniquely different appearances and information content due to the physical differences of the image-acquisition process. Researchers are developing sophisticated ways to extract a greater amount of the information contained within these images. This paper summarizes the imaging-based research presented orally at the 2018 International Conference of the International Mesothelioma Interest Group (iMig) in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, held May 2–5, 2018. Presented topics included advances in the imaging of preclinical mesothelioma models to inform clinical therapeutic strategies, optimization of the time delay between contrast administration and image acquisition for maximized enhancement of mesothelioma tumor on CT, an investigation of image-based criteria for clinical tumor and nodal staging of mesothelioma by contrast-enhanced CT, an investigation of methods for the extraction of mesothelioma tumor volume from MRI and the association of volume with patient survival, the use of deep learning for mesothelioma tumor segmentation in CT, and an evaluation of CT-based radiomics for the prognosis of mesothelioma patient survival. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To reflect on the role of risk-taking and risky play in child development and consider recommendations for the injury prevention field, a symposium was held prior to the November 2013 Canadian Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference. Delegates heard from Canadian and international researchers, practitioners and play safety experts on child development, play space design and playground safety, provision of recreation, and legal and societal perceptions of risk and hazard. The presenters provided multidisciplinary evidence and perspectives indicating the potential negative effect on children's development of approaches to injury prevention that prioritise safety and limit children's opportunities for risky play. Delegates considered the state of the field of injury prevention and whether alternative approaches were warranted. Each presenter prepared a discussion paper to provide the opportunity for dialogue beyond attendees at the symposium. The resulting discussion papers provide a unique opportunity to consider and learn from multiple perspectives in order to develop a path forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Research plays an important role in supporting integrated care (IC). However, IC networks may lack the capacity to leverage research. Moreover, many health system organizations (HSOs) struggle to identify and implement relevant research in a timely fashion. Embedded research is a promising strategy to align data with system priorities, increase the relevance and timeliness of evidence, and build capacity to conduct and use research. This study reviews two Canadian postdoctoral training programs that embed researchers in HSOs. We describe the programs, report on early lessons learned, and discuss implications for IC. Background: •IC is a priority in many Canadian jurisdictions. For example, Ontario Health Teams (OHTs) were introduced in 2019 to organize care in a more integrated way. •Embedded research requires different skills than traditional research. In response, new training programs have developed such as the Health System Impact Fellowship (HSIF) and the OHT Impact Fellows (OHTIF) programs. Aims: This paper describes the HSIF and OHTIF models and presents early lessons learned. Through surveys, program data, and interviews with participants, we identify key challenges and opportunities. Combined with insights from program leads, we provide an in-depth look at the design and implementation of these programs and how embedded research can support IC initiatives. Highlights: The HSIF program was launched in 2017 and has embedded more than 200 fellows in over 100 HSOs across Canada. Host organizations determine research priorities and are matched with fellows. Distinctive features include a focus on impact-oriented research, co-supervision with health system and academic leaders, professional development, protected time for academic research, and a national cohort that fosters networking and collaboration. Promising outcomes include advancement of HSO goals, increased system capacity for research, and enhanced leadership skills and early career success among fellows. The OHTIF program is modeled on HSIF and places researchers directly in OHTs where they support local projects and learning across organizations. Launched in 2021, the program saw strong demand from OHTs and trainees interested in IC research. Distinctive features include its focus on IC, intensive training activities, and ongoing mentorship for fellows. Early feedback is promising but also suggests areas for attention, including the unique needs of rural and remote regions and the multiple, often competing demands that fellows encounter. Both programs involve patients and caregivers on their advisory panels and offer training in patient engagement. Conclusions: Embedded research is a promising strategy to support IC and health system research. Data from two Canadian training programs show strong interest from HSOs keen to embed research talent within their teams, and from applicants interested in using their research skills to address real-world challenges. Early evidence also highlights the importance of matching, onboarding, and ongoing training for fellows, mentors, and host organizations to build a highperforming embedded research workforce. Implications: Our experience suggests embedded research programs provide important benefits both in augmenting the research and evidence translation capabilities of HSOs and in providing valuable training experiences for fellows, augmenting the research and evaluation skills gained in their graduate education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Canada, the average costs to treat mental illness varies greatly depending upon the type of disorder. In 2012, the total direct cost of treating psychotic disorders to the Ministry of Health in Ontario, Canada was around 2.1 billion Canadian dollars. Psychiatric hospitalizations, followed by long-term care needs, contributed to the high cost of care. As of 2017-2018 schizophrenia and psychotic disorders were costliest to treat, with an estimated average cost of 12,971 Canadian dollars per hospital stay (CIHI, 2019). Bundled care models refer to a single payment for a full scope of care, are based on timely and highest quality of care, within an integrated care pathway provided to a patient during a defined episode of care. The results are a seamless transition experience and consistency in care for patients across providers and care settings. Bundled care models have been successfully created and implemented in other acute episodes of care, however within mental health and addictions and specifically within the specialized psychiatric setting are relatively new, as defining and articulating the episode of care across the chronicity of one's lifetime has proven challenging. In this paper, we describe our experiences with designing a proof-ofconcept bundled care model for patients with schizophrenia, implementing the model in the hospital setting, measuring adherence, and calculating the accompanying financial model. The comprehensive, evidenced based care elements that comprise optimal care for those with schizophrenia (in accordance with best practices and Health Quality Ontario's Quality Standards) were mapped into a 61-day proof of concept pathway by taking into consideration - (a) daily nursing care activities (b) clinical care and treatment activities reflective of Quality Ontario's governed quality standards for schizophrenia care (i.e. access to Family Intervention Therapy [FIT] and cognitive behavior therapy for psychosis [CBTp]) and (c) identification of exceptions to care. The financial model leveraged data retrieved from the electronic health record on a sample of 142 inpatients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and reflective of the resources required to deliver the care elements and activities. Statistical analysis were conducted to identify areas of opportunity to standardize practice and align practices in quality improvement initiatives to increase adherence to the proof-of-concept model and pathway. Initial learnings included the identification of the variable risk factors that impact complexity and care. Next steps in this work include the definition and design of risk-adjusted, personalized pathways to further refine the model and reflect personalized care. By taking into consideration the complexity factors, both from a treatment perspective and population health focus with the social determinants of health, personalized pathways can be identified to ensure timely, quality, evidence-based and efficient care during the course of admission. Work is currently underway to develop formalized partnerships across care settings (acute care, specialized mental health care and community settings) to further broaden the model and support a seamless experience across care settings. Further learnings from this work have funding model implications and will inform mental health bundled care policies to support similar mental health clinical pathways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reflects systematically on papers presented at the 2014 CCEAM Conference held in New Brunswick, Canada, to understand the topics addressed and types of papers, as well as authorship patterns of the presenters. A qualitative content analysis of 172 papers presented at the conference shows that 'leadership' and 'education policy' are still the dominant areas of study in the field, and that most field members use interviews and questionnaires in their research design. Yet, new topics that received much more attention at the conference than before seem to reflect the dynamic intellectual evolution of the field, although some of them are unrelated to the field's core and dominant areas of knowledge production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstracts are presented for papers that will be delivered at the XXXIII FIMS World Congress of Sports Medicine and Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine, From Prevention to Performance, to be held in Quebec City, Quebec from June 18-21, 2014. Topics of the papers include overuse injuries in amateur cyclists, chronic patella tendinopathy, and baseline concussion assessments in varsity athletes.

Poetry, among the arts, remains understudied as a means for community development. To address this scarcity, this paper considers the use of poetry as a community development tool and discusses its uniqueness in this role. It offers a description and analysis of an exploratory, qualitative research study carried out with twelve respondents in Montreal, Canada, who participated in community-based creative writing groups. Evaluation suggested that, overall, the poetry groups made a positive contribution to community building and development. This paper locates the study in the context of community development and the arts and includes references to poetry therapy and social action-based creative writing. It also raises questions as to why poetry has not found its place on the agenda of arts-based community development. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Introduction: Discussions of integrated care have ranged in focus from large-scale health system transformations, to discrete interventions intended to enhance local continuity of care. Beyond these variations in scale and focus, literature on integrated care has used a variety of conceptual frameworks to explain various activities and elements necessary to achieve integrated care. Existing frameworks have helped to advance research and practice; yet the complexity of changing practice required to achieve integrated care across the policy, organizational, and clinical levels complicates efforts to represent or implement these innovations in straightforward ways. Aims Objectives Theory or Methods: In this paper, we present a novel strategy for conceptualizing integrated care as developing through a series of milestones observable at the organizational level. Based on analysis of four integrated care organizational case studies in Canada and New Zealand, we outline how this approach to conceptualizing integrated care both resolves the tension of crossing the macro, meso, and micro levels of analysis, and generates new practical insights to guide policy and practice. Methods consist of qualitative interviews, observation, and document analysis across cases, and qualitative data were analyzed temporally to identify milestones as indicated by participants over time. Highlights or Results or Key Findings: We define a milestone as the occurrence of a salient event that is perceived by respondents to facilitate or disrupt efforts towards the development of integrated care. We synthesize these events at the organizational level, suggesting that the organizational level of analysis is the most appropriate level to represent the significance of these milestones. Our analysis identified six categories of milestone: (1) Strategic relational milestones, referring to building relationships between stakeholders. (2) Strategic process change milestones, referring to efforts to improve quality in practice. (3) Structural (intra-organizational) milestones, referring to changes in organizational structure. (4) Structural (inter-organizational) milestones, referring to changes in the legal, operational, or leadership structures that facilitate relationships between organizations. (5) Environmental milestones, referring to changes in the social or natural environment. (6) Political milestones, referring to changes in the control and allocation of resources. Conclusions: Our results generate a new conceptual framework for understanding the achievement of integrated care as occurring through a series of milestones. This approach enhances the focus on achieving integrated care "in the wild", in the actual environments in which leaders, clinicians, policymakers, patients, and caregivers work to implement integrated care. Implications for applicability/transferability sustainability and limitations: Our model emphasizes two practical points. First, that there is no single series of sequential steps that must be taken to achieve integrated care. Second, that policy efforts to support integrated care ought to encourage organizations and their collaborators to work toward milestones that facilitate the development of integrated care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper covers the origin, history and scope of Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, the editorial process and timeframes, research and scholarship for librarians, the peer review process, the components of a good research article, and practical tips on what editors look for in a manuscript submission with examples from Partnership journal. It is intended for anyone writing a research article but should be particularly helpful to first-time authors. The paper was first given as a presentation at Ontario Library Association Super Conference on January 31, 2013. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The vision of the Canadian Sex Research Forum (CSRF) is to be Canada's leading organization dedicated to interdisciplinary, theoretical, and applied sexuality research. We sought to determine the composition of four previous CSRF Annual Conference (2013-2016) scientific programs. We double-coded 356 abstracts on first author region, discipline, and faculty status; presentation format (oral/poster); and several non-exclusive yes/no questions regarding study populations, topics, and methods. We calculated odds ratios (OR) to assess trends (per year) and likelihood of oral versus poster presentation. Most of authors were from psychology (86.5%), although this decreased over time (98.1% to 80.5%). Most abstracts used quantitative methods (82.9%) and there was a decrease over time in abstracts using qualitative (26.4% to 16.3%) and experimental (17.0% to 7.3%) methods. For study population and topic, there were increases over time in clinical population foci (7.6% to 23.6%) and decreases in race/ethnicity foci (3.8% to 0.8%) and methods topics (18.9% to 5.7%). Half of the abstracts were oral presentations (44.9%), which were more frequently awarded to faculty (81.1% vs. 38.6%), sexual practice topics (50.7% vs. 40.8%), relationship topics (52.3% vs. 40.7%), methodology topics (50.0% vs. 44.2%), and theory papers (71.4% vs. 43.3%). Oral presentations were less frequently awarded to single sex/gender populations (36.7% vs. 48.4%), student-only populations (35.3% vs. 51.2%), race/ethnicity foci (20.0% vs. 45.5%), and quantitative methods (43.4% vs. 52.5%). To achieve CSRF's vision of "interdisciplinary, theoretical, and applied research,'' we must undertake intentional strategic action (e.g., more content from non-psychology disciplines, more qualitative methods). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2011, an interdisciplinary symposium was organized in Toronto, Canada to investigate prevailing models of health policy change in the knowledge translation literature and to assess the applicability of these models for equity-focused urban health research. The papers resulting from the symposium have been published together, in the Journal of Urban Health, along with this introductory essay. This essay describes how the different papers grapple in different ways with how to understand and to bridge the gaps between urban health research and action. The breadth of perspectives reflected in the papers (e.g., social epidemiology, public health, political science, sociology, critical labor studies, and educational psychology) shed much light on core tensions in the relationship between KT and health equity. The first tension is whether the content of evidence or the context of decision making is the strong determinate of research impact in relation to health equity policy. The second tension is whether relationships between health equity researchers and decision makers are best viewed in terms of collaboration or of conflict. The third concerns the role that power plays in evidence-based policy making, when the issues at stake are not only empirical but also normative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1978 the Canadian Chiropractic Association recognized the need to establish an organization that would prepare chiropractors to treat athletic injuries and promote these services to sports organizations. Dr. Adrian Grice approached three chiropractors to establish such an organization. The Canadian Chiropractic Sports Academy (CCSA) was established in 1978. This was the start of the chiropractic sports movement which has seen chiropractors playing prominent roles as team doctors to professional and amateur teams and athletes and in the delivery of care at major national and international competitions. This paper will show the work done by the original founders of the CCS A which has helped to pave the way to the present level of acceptance of chiropractic sports injury management and performance enhancement and as the progenitor of the Royal College of Chiropractic Sports Sciences Canada. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents an abstract of a research paper entitled `The Bargaining Position of Married Women: Evidence From Montreal Marriage Contracts in the 1820s and 1840s,' by Gillian Hamilton, presented at the annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Presents an abstract of the paper `Property Rights, Competition and Depletion in the Eighteenth-Century Canadian Fur Trade: The Role of the European Market,' by Frank D. Lewis, during the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Presents an abstract of the paper `Was Hydroelectricity Regulated in Quebec in the 1930s? Assessing the Impact of the First Electricity Commissions,' by Ruth Dupre, Patrick Joly and Michael Patry, during the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

The article focuses on abstracts of conference papers to be presented at Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine Sport and Exercise Medicine's Sports Injury Prevention Research Symposium to be held on June 20 2012 in British Columbia, Canada including an abstract on the paper on examining sports injury, neuromuscular training injury prevention and exercise training program.

The article focuses on abstracts of conference papers to be presented at Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine Sport and Exercise Medicine's Conference Exercise, Evidence, and Excellence in Sport Medicine to be held during June 20-23, 2012 in British Columbia, Canada including an abstract on the paper on student athletes, another on college athletes and multimodel physiotherapy.

The Mental Health Commission of Canada has identified the elimination of stigma and the reduction of discrimination as one of the top three priority areas to be addressed as part of its federal frame work for mental health. "Stomping out Stigma" S.O.S. Summit Conferences for youth are directly in line with those recommendations. This is not a global program, but rather a program aimed directly at high school students. It involves education, action and contact with consumers, all as an integral part of its success in eliminating the stigma associated with mental illness. This paper will outline the steps required in order to implement a similar program in any region in the country. The paper describes the steps for program development and promotion and provides a summary of the evaluation outcome report. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The first part of this paper describes how the systems and programs that feed Canada's sub-national economic accounts were built at Statistics Canada. A carefully chosen overview of challenges in developing these accounts offers insights into the issues and problems involved in building the statistical infrastructure that supports the present national and sub-national economic accounts. The second part of the paper deals with conceptual issues and challenges in developing a regional input-output framework that is capable integrating the sub-national data discussed earlier using national accounting principals and conventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"InSight", the inaugural Canadian National Students' Conference in International Development Studies, was convened in June 2004 as a forum for undergraduate students to collectively reflect upon their complex, fluid, and rapidly-growing field of study. As the synthesis of the observations and reflections of the students at InSight, this paper lends an undergraduate voice to recent reviews of the condition of International Development Studies (IDS) in Canada. While IDS exists in multifarious incarnations at universities across Canada, this paper provides a much-needed articulation of perceptions, motivations, problems, and values that can be found in IDS undergraduates from coast to coast. The authors of this paper have sought, as did the "InSight" Conference itself, to honour the idealism, creativity, and energy of those students drawn to a field of study located at the periphery of the academic world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Summarizes some of the key findings of academic papers presented at the First World Congress on the Management of Electronic Commerce, which took place in January, 2000, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, sponsored by McMaster University. The conference was attended by 243 delegates from more than 25 countries. Outlines two meta-management issues including: the importance of taking a strategic approach to Internet ventures as well as considering infrastructure design during implementation. Several of the papers presented fell into three broad functional categories including operations, human resources and marketing. Finally, a summary of internationalization and education implications is discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I want to discuss how particular conceptions of academic freedom can overshadow issues of justice for racialized members of the academy. In particular, the question I will explore is how we can begin to think of academic freedom in relation to, and not against, freedom from structural racial discrimination. I will explore this question in relation to presentations made at a conference on academic freedom, and through the examination of a few notable cases (both historical and contemporary) of academic freedom and racism in the classroom as well as in the blogosphere and social media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: To determine the percentage of abstracts presented at the Canadian Association of Radiologists (CAR) annual scientific meetings that go on to publication. Methods: Records of previous CAR meetings from the years 2005-2011 were obtained. An Internet search was performed to determine which abstracts went on to publication. Abstracts were assessed according to exhibit category (Resident Award Papers), educational institution, publishing journal, and time to publication. Results: Of the 402 abstracts presented, 112 (28%) were published. Overall, an average of 37% of Radiologists-In-Training Presentations, 34% of Scientific Exhibits, and 20% of Educational Exhibits went on to publication. The University of British Columbia and University of Ottawa published the largest number of abstracts (66 and 62, respectively) from the years 2005-2011. The University of Montreal had the largest percentage of abstracts published (42%). The range of publishing journals was wide, but the top publisher was the Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal (27%). Eighty-three percent of abstracts were published within 3 years of being presented. Conclusion: In total, 28% of all the abstracts presented at the CAR conferences between 2005 and 2011 were published. Further exploration into the reasons and barriers for abstracts not being published may be a next step in future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Bellagio ' Conference on Program and Policy Options for Preventing Obesity in the Low- and Middle- Income Countries' ( LMICs) was organized to pull together the current. We need not reiterate the importance of this topic or the speed of change in eating, drinking and moving facing us across the globe. The conference emerges from need to significantly step up the policies and programs to reduce obesity by learning from some current examples of best practice and strengthening the role of the academic and civil society players in translating global evidence and experience into action at the national level. There is also a need to empower the younger generation of scholars and activists in these countries to carry on this effort. The meeting was also timely because a number of funding agencies in the United States, Canada and the UK, at least, are beginning to focus attention on this topic. This set of papers provides not only examples of existing best practice but also a road map ahead for LMICs in the various areas of action needed to reduce obesity across LMICs. The meeting highlighted critical barriers to implementation that have blocked many initiatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The III International Conference on Amorphous and Microcrystalline Semiconductors was held in St. Peters-burg on July 24, 2002. This conference was organized by the Russian Academy of Sciences represented by the Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute; the chairperson of the organizing committee of the conference was E.I. Terukov, the cochairperson was K.D. Tséndin, and the secretary of the organizing committee was I.N. Trapeznikova. There were 181 papers presented at the conference. The participants included scientists from France, Bul-garia, Canada, Latvia, and a number of scientists from the Commonwealth of Independent States (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, and Azer-baijan). The attention of participants was attracted to the papers delivered by V.A. Yukhimchuk (Institute of Semiconductor Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev), A.A. Sherchenkov (State Institute of Electronic Engineering, Zelenograd), S.P. Vikhrov (Ryazan State Academy of Radio Emgi-neering), A.N. Nazarov (Institute of Semiconductor Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev), A.V. Medvedev (Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg), and M.M. Mezdrogina (Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg).

Official participation in Canadian First Ministers' Conferences has long been exclusive to federal and provincial first ministers. In March 1992, however, the membership of this intergovernmental arena was expanded permanently to include territorial premiers. Using the tools of historical institutionalism and drawing upon relevant literature and eleven elite interviews with former first ministers and senior civil servants, this paper seeks to explain why this instance of incremental institutional change occurred. It finds that significant friction between the institutional and ideational layers of the Canadian federation during a period of mega-constitutional reform allowed federal, provincial and territorial actors to draw upon ideas about democracy and the political and constitutional maturation of the territorial North to expand permanently the membership of First Ministers' Conferences. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This section presents abstracts of papers presented at the 2011 CSBBCS Annual Meeting, including "Dopamine D2 Antagonist Effects on Motivation and Timing," "Dystrophin Localization in the Mouse Cerebellum: Implications for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy," and "Posterior Cortical Atrophy: The Role of Simultanagnosia in Deficits of Face Perception."

Abstract: Objective: HIV/AIDS conferences provide an opportunity to review current research from around the world. Conferences are a good gauge of the amount of research conducted on HIV/AIDS and women because papers are disseminated widely and publicly, and can represent published or unpublished material. The objective of this study was to conduct content analysis and data coding to quantify trends in women-specific research in HIV/AIDS abstracts at the International AIDS Conferences (AIDS), the Canadian Association for HIV Research (CAHR) Conferences, and the Conferences on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) over a 7-year time period. Methods: Abstracts titles and text containing female keywords were retrieved from the AIDS, CAHR, and CROI conferences between 2003 and 2009 and coded according to research category using content analysis. Results: Over 34,000 abstracts were searched. A total of 5,221 abstracts related to women (13.7%) were found over 7 years. Women-specific abstracts represented 16.2% (n = 4,245/26,175) at AIDS, 13.7% (n = 257/1,876) at CAHR, and 11.1% (n = 719/6,370) at CROI. The AIDS and CAHR conferences demonstrated a slightly increasing trend in women-specific abstracts over 7 years. In categorical coding, the most prevalent research category was reproductive health, and the most infrequent was policy and program evaluation. Conclusion: The AIDS conferences showed an increase in women-specific abstracts over time, probably owing to a gender policy implemented in 2008 and a women’s research award. The CAHR conference instituted a gender policy in 2011, and the CROI conference should follow suit. Conference abstracts should include breakdown and analysis by gender. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Information about several papers discussed at a symposium held at Cleveland, Ohio from April 14-16, 2011 on the renewable energy and the electricity grid shared by the U.S. and Canada. The focus of the Department of Energy of the U.S. is on the enhancement of energy sources and the national security of the country. Information on the Surplus energy and surplus hydro power in the Quebec is also presented.

Information about several papers discussed at a symposium held at Cleveland, Ohio from April 14-16, 2011 on the relations between the U.S. and Canada regarding the issue of energy development. The speaker Carmine Marcello focuses on the energy industry and the role of Hydro One Inc. regarding this international relation. Information on the forum discussion post speech by the members of the Canada-United States Law Institute is also presented.

Information about several papers discussed at a symposium held at Cleveland, Ohio from April 14-16, 2011 on the relations between the U.S. and Canada. The academic institutions of both the countries are presented with respect to their stability and reputation. Information on the speakers Robert Rawson and Ian Holloway and their ideologies on the relations between the U.S. and Canada are also presented.